Show GOLD FROM ASHBROOK Another Bar of Bullion From Box Elder County I I REPORT OF THE MANAGER 1 J H PARIS CONFIDENT AS TO I THE 7JLTI1 ATE OUTCOME i iI I Could Work 100 Men On Ore Wit I Proportionable Silling Capacity > The Produce of the Mine Averages 1 From 25 to 80 Het In Gold and I SilverLittle Tom Springing Up I at the Mine At Lake Linderman The Witcher Boys Will Boat It Into the Klondike Diggings Account Ac-count of Their Trip Over the Chil coot Pass Sale of GeysarKaricn a Improvement rotic able In the Iilining Stock Market Hardly more than a year ago a few nrn in this city incorporated a mining company on the cooperative plan sornehing new in mining circles in this cityand yet tills company is now almost al-most on a dividend paying basis and every week is making regular consignments II ments of Sold and silver bullion This ompany was incorporated under un-der the name of the Salt Lake Mining I Improvement company and soon after af-ter its organization secured control of I what is known as the old Ash rook j mme in Ashbrook district Box Elder i county this state This mine or croup j of mines in the early history of Utah made Quite a lecord as ft producer or the piedous metals and when the pr < sent I s-ent company came into possession some fine bodies of ore were already blocked I out In its old workings and a mill for I its reduction was the problem that presented I pre-sented Itself for eeP consideration of the officers of the company who solved I it by putting v small plant comprising a Lewis crusher and a few pans and settlers and the plant although crude I and not calculated to excite or arouse the enthusiasm of lovers cf mammoth inilis equipped with intricate and costly I cost-ly machinery has been working very satisfactorily eer since while the indications in-dications are that the company now that it has passed from the short clothes stage into its first pair of pants will soon be able to whistle smoke cigars on the side and in the near future fu-ture put up a mill which will be as I Imposing as any yet built in this western west-ern country by companies making more pretensions at the start As previously mentioned In these columns col-umns the company has already made a number of shipments of gold find silver bullion from its Ashbrook property prop-erty and yesterday J H Paris the manager and superintendent came down from the mine with another consignment con-signment the rstjult of from four to five days run at The little mill which only has a capacity of handling about j i eight tons of ore dally although the usher could take care of two or three I times this amount of mineral a day The brick which is a handsome one 1 neighed S5 pounds its composition being I be-ing about onefourth gold and three fourths in silver rthe In speaking of the mine and the success suc-cess being met with hy the company I 3tr Paris stated that the company was i now giving employment to about 60 men including wood cutters millmen I an 1 the men at ujack In the mine there I being about 20 of the latter l When asked as to the condition ctf I the mine Mr Paris stated that with sufficient milling capacity for the I handling of the mineral thu company could work 100 men on ore for an indefinite in-definite period As it was however more attention was being paid i just now to development than to ore extraction ad should it be decided in the near future to increase the capacity of the mill there would be no lack of mineral on which to run it From the present outlook he t indications indica-tions are that the company will te able to naintain regular shipments of bullion all winter and there will be no closedown during the cold weather as the company is getting In its winter supplies of provisions wood and other nectsEities In again referring to the operation of the mill Mr Paris stated that the cre treated milled from 25 to SO in gold and silver to the ton on an average Quite a littte town is springing up al the mine and several families have made their homes there so that there is considerable life and activity in this oldtime camp which at one time was in a moot prosperous onT on-T H Chascain the machinist for the company came down with ilr Paris pnd he joins in the statement that the outlook for the enterprise is all that could be desired and he also states that about 20 miles eas of Ashbrook on George creek a small mill has recently re-cently been installed and it is learned that the owners are already beginning the shipment of bullion 8tm l east of this is the property of the Washakie lining company of this city in which a large body of fine shipping ore has recently been disclosed dis-closed |